Cabbage Alley
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| Studio album by The Meters | ||||
| Released | May 11, 1972 | |||
| Genre | Funk | |||
| Length | 47:10 | |||
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Reprise MS 2076 |
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| Producer | Allen Toussaint, Marshall Sehorn | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |
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| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
| Robert Christgau | B |
Cabbage Alley is the fourth studio album by the funk group The Meters, inspired in part by Professor Longhair's "Hey Now Baby". It is the band's first album with Reprise Records after leaving Josie Records which went bankrupt in 1971.
Interviewed in 2001, the 69-year-old New Orleans bass drummer Lionel Batiste Sr. described the old neighborhood: "Cabbage Alley was around Perdido Street. They had a lot of musicians down there—it was almost like a [red light] district—fast women. Near the battlefield. They had a whole lot of pimps, too, in there."
Credits adapted from AllMusic.
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